TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 266308 [ 2025TNSTR3238....1J ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-08-17 20:02:29
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

S. Jurado, F.E. Bauer, F. Forster, G. Pignata, A. Munoz-Arancibia, A. Mourao, L. Hernandez-Garcia, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Dastidar, J.P. Brandt, A. Alvarez, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, B. Gamboa, P. Huijse, H. Larranaga, C. Mansilla, K. Medina, D. Moreno, E. Munoz, E. Pizarro, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, D. Rodriguez-Mancini, M. Catelan, S. Eyheramendy, M.J. Graham on behalf of the ALeRCE broker report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2025ugx
Discoverer internal name: ZTF25abjesbh
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:25:30.308 (231.37628289873) DEC = +37:49:53.58 (37.831549365067)
Discovery date: 2025-08-17 04:16:39.996 (JD=2460904.6782407)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J152530.41+374953.1
Host redshift: 0.1093672

Remarks: SN candidate classified using ALeRCE's stamp classifier (Carrasco-Davis et al. 2021) and the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/object/ZTF25abjesbh

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-08-17 04:16:39.996
Flux: 19.7405 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Archival info: Other
Remarks: ZTF non-detection limits not available

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2025ugx